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Pakistan has promised to retaliate after India launched military strikes on Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, fueling fears of a broader confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Pakistan’s government on May 7 pledged to respond “at a time, place and manner of its choosing to...

Seven Pakistani army soldiers were killed when their vehicle was targeted by an improvised explosive device in the southwestern province of Balochistan, Pakistan’s military says, blaming India for the attack amid rising tensions. Pakistan’s military said members of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA)...

An opposition activist whom Uganda’s military chief, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, claimed to have held captive in his basement has appeared in court “visibly weak” and showing signs of torture, according to the justice minister. Eddie Mutwe, who acts as the chief bodyguard for Uganda’s leading opposition...

Sudan’s paramilitary unleashed drones on the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, hitting key targets there, including the airport, the port and a hotel, military officials said. The barrage was the second such attack this week on a city that had been a hub for people fleeing Sudan’s two-year war. There was...

Sudan’s paramilitary unleashed drones on the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, hitting key targets there, including the airport, the port and a hotel, military officials said. The barrage was the second such attack this week on a city that had been a hub for people fleeing Sudan’s two-year war. There was...

Hundreds of activists defied threats from Mali's military government and demonstrated over the weekend in the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took power by force almost four years ago. The demonstrators in the capital, Bamako, protested a new bill initiated by Mali’s transitional government...

Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza for two months and says it won’t allow food, fuel, water, or medicine into the besieged territory until it puts in place a system giving it control over the distribution. But officials from the UN and aid groups say proposals Israel has floated to use its...

The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator urged Israel to lift its blockade of aid into the Gaza Strip, saying the halting of humanitarian aid amounts to “cruel collective punishment.” The U.N. said thousands of Palestinians had breached a humanitarian field office in Gaza looking for aid...

A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on May 1, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. The attack in the partially occupied...

A Kenyan opposition legislator was shot dead in the capital Nairobi in what police have described as a “targeted and premeditated” crime. MP Charles Were was shot on the night of April 30 after his car stopped at a roundabout on a busy major road. President Willian Ruto urged police to conduct a...